Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Sunday defended the state government's stand of not declaring a holiday on the occasion of the consecration of the Lord Ram temple in Ayodhya.

The video clip of a duo riding a motorbike in town and dragging along a man tied to the back of the bike, has gone viral on social media on Sunday, shocking viewers.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday met Amoni Diru Pullom, whose father-in-law has been missing since 2015 after allegedly being abducted by China's People's Liberation Army, at his campsite near the Arunachal Pradesh capital.

The Hyderabad-based National Remote Sensing Centre of ISRO has provided a glimpse of the newly built Ram Temple in Ayodhya from space.

New Delhi: A more than 40-year-old small aircraft carrying six people that crashed in a rural Afghanistan province was not an Indian aircraft and only did refuelling at the Gaya airport on Saturday en route from a Thailand airport to Moscow, officials said on Sunday.

In the wake of Vigraha Prana Pratishtha is scheduled to take place in Ayodhya on January 22. Opposition leader R Ashok requested that on this day, lighting of lamps, bhajans, and worship of Lord Rama will be held in every house and religious place, hence government offices, schools, colleges and public enterprises should be declared a holiday.

The local police filed a case against Chethan Kumpala, who has been accused of damaging the banner for the 'Brahmakalashotsava' of the Adishakti Temple in Kumpala and is currently absconding.

A police think tank that functions under the union home ministry has issued an advisory and alert against a variety of scams that take place on popular social media messaging platform WhatsApp leading to cyber crimes and financial frauds.